lhc rap

Just wanted to be one of the voices acknowledging day one of CERN's Large Hadron Collider. I know very little about it, but being a blogger I don't let that get in the way of talking about it! You can read about it on Wikipedia, The Source of All That is Knowable. Two interesting factoids I learned from a Science Friday podcast: 1. it shoots 100's of billions of protons at a time, thousands of times per second and accelerates them to 99.999999% o the speed of light! Sounds pretty fast. 2. it will not create something that swallows the earth or destroys the whole universe because the kind of…